Historic Churches in Lancashire

St Patrick's Chapel stands on a headland overlooking Morecambe Bay. There was a chapel here at least as early as the 8th century and possibly several centuries earlier. By tradition, the first chapel was founded by St Patrick, who was shipwrecked near here. There are 8 10th-century rock-cut graves carved into the rocky outcrop.
Heysham Head, Heysham, Lancashire, England, LA3 2PR

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St Peter's Church in the Lancashire village of Heysham is one of the oldest places of Christian worship in Western Europe. It celebrated its official millennial anniversary in 1967, making it now over 1050 years old.
Main Street, Heysham, Lancashire, England, LA3 2RN

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The Priory and Parish Church of St Mary, Lancaster, as it is officially known, is mostly a 15th-century building, though it contains several pre-Conquest reminders of an earlier building, including a Saxon doorway and fragments of Saxon crosses.
Castle Hill, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, LA1 1YZ

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St John the Evangelist Church is a mid-Georgian town church built as a chapel of ease to Lancaster's Priory Church. St John's was built in 1754 of sandstone, with the addition of a tower and spire in 1784. The church was erected at a time of great prosperity for Lancaster; trade through the port was increasing, and the population was booming.
North Road, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, LA1 1PA

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A large boulder in Woodplumpton churchyard marks the burial place of Meg Shelton, known as The Fylde Hag. Shelton, who died in 1705, was said to be a witch who could change into the shape of animals. According to legend she was buried upside down so that she could not dig her way out of the grave.
St Anne's Church, Woodplumpton Road, Woodplumpton, Lancashire, England, PR4 0WE

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Langho village has a bit of a split personality. The 'new' village blossomed at the height of the railroad boom of the Victorian period and seems quite different from the older part of the village, now called Old Langho to distinguish it from the new development.
Old Langho Road, Old Langho, Lancashire, England, BB6 8AW

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Now almost overwhelmed by urban Preston, the church of St Mary's stands on a wooded site near the remains of a Saxon fortification, overlooking an ancient crossing of the River Ribble. After the Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror gave Penwortham to Roger de Poicteau, and it was perhaps this Roger who was responsible for building the Norman motte which can easily be seen beside the church.
Church Avenue, Penwortham, Lancashire, England, PR1 0AH

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A simple Georgian chapel built in 1717, and embodying traditional Georgian layout and furnishings. The church is a long, low building, so it is difficult to imagine that the walls were originally even lower. They were raised in 1813 to allow galleries to be inserted along two walls.
Pilling, Lancashire, England, PR3 6AA

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It seems likely that there was a church at Poulton in the Anglo-Saxon period, but the first historical record of a building here dates to 1094 when Roger de Poitou granted the living to the Abbey of Sees (Seez) in France. St Chad's remained in control of Sees until Henry IV decreed that foreign abbeys could no longer hold lands in England.
7 Vicarage Road, Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England, FY6 7BE

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The Lancashire village of Ribchester has a long and fascinating history, and the medieval church of St Wilfrid's embodies much of that history. The church is built on top of the Roman fort of Bremetennacum Veteranorum, and stones from the fort are built into the fabric of the church (indeed, a former rector claimed that two Doric pillars supporting the organ loft came from the Roman fort). A similar pair of pillars support the porch of the White Bull Hotel nearby.
Church Street, Ribchester, Lancashire, England, PR3 3XS

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